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Oeuvres complètes d'Alexis de Tocqueville. T. 1 / publ. par Mme de Tocqueville [et Gustave de Beaumont]Date de l'édition originale: 1864-1866Le présent ouvrage s'inscrit dans une politique de conservation patrimoniale des ouvrages de la littérature Française mise en place avec la BNF.HACHETTE LIVRE et la BNF proposent ainsi un catalogue de titres indisponibles, la BNF ayant numérisé ces oeuvres et HACHETTE LIVRE les imprimant à la demande.Certains de ces ouvrages reflètent des courants de pensée caractéristiques de leur époque, mais qui seraient aujourd'hui jugés condamnables.Ils n'en appartiennent pas moins à l'histoire des idées en France et sont susceptibles de présenter un intérêt scientifique ou historique.Le sens de notre démarche éditoriale consiste ainsi à permettre l'accès à ces oeuvres sans pour autant que nous en cautionnions en aucune façon le contenu.Pour plus d'informations, rendez-vous sur www.hachettebnf.fr

The book I now publish is not a history of the French Revolution; that history has been written with too much success for me to attempt to write it again. This volume is a study on the Revolution. The French people made, in 1789, the greatest effort which was ever attempted by any nation to cut, so to speak, their destiny in halves, and to separate by an abyss that which they had heretofore been from that which they sought to become hereafter. For this purpose, they took all sorts of precautions to carry nothing of their past with them into their new condition; they submitted to every species of constraint in order to fashion themselves otherwise than their fathers were; they neglected nothing which could efface their identity.

Ce mémoire a été présenté à la Société académique de Cherbourg en 1835. Il s’agit d’une analyse de fond de la gestion de la pauvreté dans une société donnée, en général mais plus précisément dans une société moderne divisée en plusieurs «classes sociales».Pour ce faire, il remonte jusqu’au XIIème siècle où seules deux catégories existaient : ceux qui possédaient la terre et ceux qui la travaillaient...Ce recueil inclut aussi le second mémoire sur le paupérisme, mémoire écrit en 1837 au moment où l’auteur allait se présenter, pour la pre-mière fois, aux législatives dans la circonscription de Valognes. Mémoire inachevé et non publié.

Ces Souvenirs, publiés en 1893, ont été lus, relus et maintes fois cités, en raison d’abord d’une qualité littéraire qui ne faillit pas : l’art du portrait, le génie de la formule, la lucidité du témoin produisent des morceaux de bravoure saisissants. Source historique sur l’« apprentissage du suffrage universel » et les travaux de la Constituante, le livre donne à réfléchir sur l’impuissance (provisoire) du « centrisme », serré dans l’étau des passions antagoniques. Hostile aux chefs de la gauche, Tocqueville redoute l’esprit de revanche de la droite qui risque soit de replonger le pays dans les tumultes révolutionnaires, soit d’aboutir à la trique maniée par un prince-président qui en finirait avec la république. Les conditions d’un régime républicain modéré ne seront réunies qu’une trentaine d’années plus tard.

The first English-language edition published in 1838 and translated by Henry Reeve, Esq. with Preface and notes by John C. Spencer. This landmark work initiated a dialogue about the nature of democracy and the United States and its people that continues to this day. In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville [1805-1859] and Gustave de Beaumont [fl.1835] traveled through the United States on behalf of the French government to study American prisons, which were renowned for their progressive and humane methods. They were pleased to accept this assignment because they were intrigued by the idea of American democracy. Tocqueville and Beaumont spent nine months in the country, traveling as far west as Michigan and as far south as New Orleans. Throughout the tour, Tocqueville used his social connections to arrange meetings with several prominent and influential thinkers of the day. Tocqueville recorded his thoughts on the structure of the government and the judicial system, and commented on everyday people and the nation's political culture and social institutions. His observations on slavery, in particular, are impassioned and critical. These notes formed the basis of Democracy in America.

First published in French in 1856, French diplomat and political scientist Alexis de Tocqueville's "The Old Regime and the French Revolution" is one of the most influential treatises written on the French Revolution. Tocqueville begins by tracing the causes of the French Revolution to the structure of society of France prior to the Revolution, what he terms the "Ancien Regime". Tocqueville rejected the notion that the Revolution was a radical transformation of French society. He instead suggests his theory of continuity, specifically that the Revolution was not an attempt to change the nature of society in a truly fundamental way, but to wrest control from the ancient, feudal landed aristocracy and replace those outdated institutions with a representative democracy. He makes the important observation that the government of Napoleon was autocratic, strongly centralized, and thus not much different from the "Ancien Regime". Tocqueville was a fierce proponent of social institutions based on freedom and equality rather than on the rigid social hierarchy of the feudal social system of the Middle Ages, a system that was increasingly untenable in the age of enlightenment. Tocqueville's treatise remains a timely and important work on social class, revolution, and democracy. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper and follows the translation of John Bonner.

Ce recueil inclut les oeuvres suivantes:(1) Première lettre sur l'Algérie (23 Juin 1837),(2) Deuxième lettre sur l'Algérie, (3) Travail sur l'Algérie (1841),(4) Rapport des travaux parlementaire de Tocqueville sur l'Algérie (1847).

The work contains a critical comparison of two competing American penitentiary disciplines known as the Auburn and Philadelphia systems, an evaluation of whether American penitentiaries can successfully work in France, a detailed description of Houses of Refuge as the first juvenile detention centers, and an argument against penal colonization.

Bislang ist von Alexis de Tocqueville, dem sozialwissenschaftlichen Klassiker, nur ein Teil seiner groen und kleineren Schriften auf Deutsch zuganglich. Damit fehlen hierzulande wichtige Voraussetzungen fur offentlich-wissenschaftliche Debatten uber die Aktualitat seiner Gedankenwelt. Diese Situation wird durch die nunmehr vorliegende reprasentative Sammlung kleiner politischer Schriften, die die thematische Breite des republikanisch-liberalen Denkers und Analytikers der modernen Demokratie demonstrieren, grundlegend anders. Vollstandig veroffentlicht werden der konzeptionell fundamentale Vortrag "e;Uber die Politischen Wissenschaften"e; sowie die wegweisende fruhe Schrift "e;Die gesellschaftlichen und politischen Zustande in Frankreich vor und nach 1789"e;. Hinzu kommen bisher nur bruchstuckhaft vorliegende Ubertragungen von drei zentralen Reden aus der Zeit der 1848er Revolution, in denen sich Tocqueville mit der Verfassung, dem Sozialismus und mit der Frage des Rechts auf Arbeit auseinandersetzt. Daruber hinaus werden zwei international ausgiebig diskutierte Texte erstmals ubersetzt - die Schrift uber den Pauperismus und eine Studie uber Algerien. Sie eroffnen Einblicke in Tocquevilles Verstandnis der Problematik von demokratischer Sozial- und Kolonialpolitik. Die Ubersetzung des eloquenten Berichts uber die Demokratie in der Schweiz, er geht auf eine Akademie-Rede von 1848 zuruck, enthalt selten beachtete Analysen und resumiert zugleich Grundgedanken seines Hauptwerks zur Demokratie in Amerika.

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Democracy in America' is a classic French text by Alexis de Tocqueville that describes the massive societal changes sweeping across his contemporary world. He believed that such developments had transpired over the previous seven hundred years, all moving towards a more democratic system. This text outlines his ideas about how the socio-economic conditions of men were becoming more egalitarian, the origins and causes of which he believed to be intrinsic in factors such as the ability of all men to enter the clergy, and increasing opportunities in trade and commerce. An engaging and comprehensive analysis pertaining to the evolution of democracy, this two-part classic is a necessary addition to every socio-economic compendium. Alexis de Tocqueville was a French political thinker and historian best known for 'Democracy in America' and 'The Old Regime and the Revolution' (1856). He was active in French politics and retired from his political career after Louis NapolÈon Bonaparte's 1851 coup. This edition has been republished with a new introductory biography of the author.